SOC 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Pink-Collar Worker, Gender Inequality, Androcentrism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Specify gender as a criical variable in understanding crime. Designed to sensiize people to the relaive invisibility of women in the ield: largely based on a view of a patriarchal (male-based) society that empowers males. Atempt to explain why criminality is 80% male. Criicize the tradiional androcentric (male-centred) approaches of studying crime. Argues that power relaionships in the workplace are relected in the family. Males are less controlled in the work world than females this control is reproduced in the family. The increase in freedom that males experience encourages risk tasking, making them more likely to commit delinquent acts. Predicts that the more patriarchal the family structure, the greater the gender gap in delinquent behaviour between sons and daughters. Argues that social structure deines the ways in which sex, race, and class are perceived and socially constructed. Roles how people act and interact according to their deined category.